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GoNoodle is Hoppin’ – Using GoNoodle with Special Needs Students

My students and I use GoNoodle!  Do you?  GoNoodle.com is a website with a compilation of FREE brain breaks. The energy levels of the brain breaks range from calming yoga style to get your heart rate going Zumba.  As you can see above my students REALLY get into it.   They loved ...

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New Blog Design and a MixedBag Designs Giveaway!

I love changing things up.  I loved my old blog design, but I was wanting something a bit BOLDER!   After seeing what Parker Jones did for Blog Hoppin', I decided to to got to PJ's Design Laboratory for my blog redesign.   I love it!  I hope you do, too! To celebrate my ...

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Check Out What I Bought!

Have you been shopping? I just spent a small fortune during the TpT Back to School Sale. I'm joining the "Show Us What You Bought Linky" on Blog Hoppin' to... you guessed it, show you what I bought! Hope King's: Set the Stage to Engage Susan Jones': Quick Checks for 1st Grade Michelle ...

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Student Scrapbooks and a HUGE BACK To School SALE

As part of the Michaels #create2educate #sweepstakes, I decided to finally finish and post my Student Scrapbooks.   I make these every year with my students and both the parents  and the students love them!  Supplies Needed from Michaels: 8.5 x 10 Colored Card-Stock Paper 8.5 x10 ...

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First Grade Words of the Week & a FREE YEAR LONG SCOPE & SEQUENCE

I know many of you have been waiting for this!  It is finally done. After years of an outdated phonics scope and sequence, my colleague, Janine, and I decided to create a new scope and sequence.  Our old one was based on an outdated Harcourt series we no longer used.  We came up with this first ...

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Grand Prize! The Ultimate Bash Basket

Hey there teacher friends! We so hope that you are all enjoying the B2S Bash 2014 blog hop. We know how hard teachers work all year long, so we hope that some of these prizes will make your classroom life a little easier. We have one more HUGE Bash Basket that will go to one lucky winner. We ...

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Michaels #Create2Educate Sweepstakes and a Free Center Download

I have always wanted to create a sand center for my students and Michaels was there to help me out with the supplies I needed!  I am so excited to be participating in the #Create2Educate Sweepstakes.  I hope you read on for directions on how to create your own Sand Center and enter the ...

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Back to School Bash Giveaway! Enter to Win Now!

Do you want to win the awesome Techno Savvy Basket above!? Here is what is included in the prize pack! 1. HUE HD Camera and Animation Software from Hue Animation 2. $50.00 to MPIX (Print your instagram pictures) Super cool stuff, right!? You will also win: Enter and then ...

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Back to School Bash! A HUMONGOUS GIVEAWAY

It's the week I've been waiting for…and keeping a big secret…until NOW! It's time for the 2014 Back to School Bash, and I couldn't be more excited about hosting it with some of my favorite teachers bloggers friends! Be sure and follow all of these girls to stay up-to-date on what you can ...

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Last Day of the Christmas in July Sale: Phonic Center Packets

All of my phonics based literacy center packets are on sale for today!  Buy them now to start putting the centers together for next school year.  I have plans to create more phonics based literacy packets this year.  My students loved them and the consistency made them so easy to ...

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🍁Check out my new fall themed cutie by @palmpals.o 🍁Check out my new fall themed cutie by @palmpals.official .  A sweet parent bought this for the class, we use them for our morning greeting toss.

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This I Am Grateful Squirrel Craft is such a fun fall/Thanksgiving activity for your classroom! Students can share what they’re grateful for while creating an adorable fall squirrel craft that makes the cutest hallway or bulletin board display. 🍁✨

Perfect for:
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🎂Happy 20th Birthday @teacherspayteachers ! I hav 🎂Happy 20th Birthday @teacherspayteachers !

I have been with TpT since 2008!  I remember looking for a place where I could share my computer created resources with other teachers without having to set up my own website.  TpT was suggested.  I started off with a few Microsoft Word created resources 😬. At the time, the founder of TpT, Paul and his brother Dana, were single-handedly running things. I loved getting their newsletters.

In 2009 I was in a NY times article for TpT about who owns the copyright to teacher’s lesson plan ideas…the schools or the teachers.  This was not the article the author or editors told me I would be in, but that is another story! 

I stuck with TpT and creating resources and then in 2011, the site really took off and I met all these other amazing teacher-authors and finally met Paul in real life! 

As a single homeowner on a teachers salary, I worked nights and weekends on TpT resources just to be able to afford to live in my little house.  Then something amazing happened, my hard work paid off and I was able to get myself some breathing room.  I am so grateful for TpT for giving my life purpose and financial freedom back in those days.  Even though I am married now, I am so proud of myself for being able to own that little house (I still have it and rent it out) and buy my forever home in my dream neighborhood all by myself.

So many of you found out about TpT and so many more sellers joined.  It truly became the open market place that Paul envisioned all those years ago. 

TpT is still a big part of my life all these years (and hair colors) later.  I know when I eventually retire from teaching, I will be able to do TpT full time.  I love creating and sharing resources (880 and counting) with all of you.

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